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Im suzanne maloney, im vicepresident and director of Foreign Policy here at Brookings Institution, on behalf of Foreign Policy and the Talbot Center for security and technology, im truly delight today welcome you to the special event today. Our first annual night forum on politics. This forum is named in honor of brookings Phillip H Knight and made possible through his gift to the Foreign Policy program. And the overarching goal of the phil knight gift is supporting essential research into inter...

Host and this week on the communicators we welcome back the president and ceo of the American Cable Association, matt polka. Mr. Polka, what is the American Cable Association . Guest thanks, peter. Nice to be here again. Nice to be here with you, lynn, as well. The American Cable Association is unique in the fact that we represent many smaller Cable Operators across the country, and everyone always asks me, are there still small Cable Operators left . In fact, there are nearly 900 of them in eve...

Took place gradually as a result of various conflicts. The u. S. Expanded into the vacuum made possible by the collapse of soviet power in the middle east with the gulf war and then became even more deeply involved with the iraq war and afghanistan in central asia. I will get to that in a moment of the in europe, although the presidency of the George Herbert walker bush had promised gorbachev as a condition for german reunification within nato that the u. S. Would not expand nato eastward, the C...

Prince of bell air . For that he would get five day of detention. And what i found in a letter and interview that when the war was raging on and he was told russian airplanes were not great construction. You know it this isnt a great construction. It is efficient. So those planes were not great construction and not really good to protect the pilot. They were efficient in fighting the nazis. So his head was always sticking out from this cock pit so he invented a helmet and it was the soldiers har...

You are watching booktv on cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Heres our primetime lineup for tonight. Up next, bruce riedel. That all happens next on cspan2s of tv. Bruce riedel who retired with 30 years in the cia talks about the cias involvement in afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, the last battle in the cold war between the u the u. S. And the t union. This is about one hour. Good afternoon, everybody. Im Strobe Talbott and its my pleasure to welcome you to a convers...

Chicken coop. I am afraid i misspoke when i said it there is not someone at their directing all of this activity. There are man stationed in other countries in the world and Central America. It was a man down there in that area, this was delivered to. He recognized what was in the manual was a contradiction of my own executive order that we had would have nothing to do with political associations. What is a president to wing when he takes his oath of office . He promises tfaithfully execute the ...

Missiles, this covers three years into his administration that our arms control efforts have failed because he did know these are things a president must know to command. The president is called a the commanderinchief. He is called that because he is supposed to be in charge. If i could abroad and the question a little bit. Since world war ii, every conflict we have been involved with has been in nonconventional terms and yet we keep fighting in conventional or traditional military terms. The Ce...

Last year got a subpoena. He was subpoenaed to hand over documents and communications that he had related to roger stone. Roger stone and wikileaks. And the dnc and the stuff that was stolen from the Democratic Party and the Clinton Campaign by russian government hackers. Andrew miller complied with that request for documents and communications. He did hand stuff over to the fbi. But when he was also subpoenaed to testify about those same matters, to come to washington, d. C. And testify in pers...

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of Germany is not only the elimination of border structures belonging to two German countries. This...

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